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HASTAC is delighted to announce the HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference. Held April 15-17, 2010 and hosted by the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois, HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations will be a free, entirely virtual event held in a multiplicity of digital spaces instigated from sites across the globe.

(IRVINE, CA, Oct. 27, 2009) -- Digital media and the Internet are transforming how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. A newly-created Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the University of California-Irvine will provide a international center to nurture exploration of and build evidence around the impact of digital media on young people's learning and its potential for transforming education. Funded through a $2.97 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Center was announced today at a national forum at Google headquarter that brought together leading thinkers around the challenge of reasserting American global leadership in education.

As you may know if you've logged in to hastac.org lately, we are dealing with some outrageous quantities of spam. We are mounting a valiant counterattack, but so far have not been able to stem the tide. You may find that you're unable to post comments, and this is part of what we're trying to enable without opening our site up to huge spam and hacker attacks. Please do try to comment, but know that if you are prevented from doing so, it's only because of this current situation and not that we don't want to read what you have to say.

Thanks from everyone at HASTAC.